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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feliath" data-source="post: 361714" data-attributes="member: 3008">Well, I play with the movement and encumbrance rules since, as GoldenEagle pointed out, they're an important part of the tradeoff you make in deciding what kind of armor to wear. (I'm one of these people who prefers an unarmored swashbuckler to a plate-clad knight - although knights are cool too; Malory's Morte is wildly fabutastic.)As for the first question, if you're lounging in the shade or it's wintertime, you can probably wear any type of armor for however long while standing guard (or just still in general <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). If it's hot, however, standing and walking about can both be very fatiguing - it sort of is a furnace padded on the inside, after all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />From what I've seen, the average SCA fighter, despite usually wearing lighter suits than historical ones, is really exhausted after 20 minutes' combat, although of course that's a somewhat more active exercise than walking. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Contrary to what others have said and from second-hand experience (haven't tried it, but seen sleepers), you CAN sleep in full plate mail, and probably just about any type of armor. Your ability to do this, of course, varies depending on how tired you are, and how spoiled with soft pillows, but anyone capable of sleeping on the ground with nothing inbetween but clothes should be just dandy - certainly a trained warrior should be capable of it without difficulty.And yes, heavier armors often have padding or chain underneath - frequently both; chainmail is very chafing without padding underneath, whether there's another layer of armor on top or no. (Also, the links tend to rust, which can really ruin your clothes.) Shirts of chain, in my experience, are practically always worn with padding.Finally, I'd like to point out that IMC, if you waltz around in armor indoors, people will give you very strange looks, and they'll probably feel insulted - after all, you are behaving as if you expect to be attacked at any moment./Feliath - has SCA friends</blockquote>

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